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Reddit

Runs online communities for discussion and advice

Engineering Manager - Ranking Platform

Engineering LeadershipPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeRemote in USA$230k - $322kRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management.
  • At least 7 years of experience building large-scale backend distributed systems, including substantial experience developing and shipping production software.
  • Experience leading teams or major initiatives in machine learning infrastructure, recommendation or ranking systems, indexing, or streaming and batch data pipelines.
  • Strong technical judgment in high-throughput platform services and APIs, including guiding tradeoffs among reliability, latency, scalability, data freshness, and cost alongside senior engineers.
  • A track record of defining technical direction and delivering platform initiatives across multiple quarters and teams, with clear prioritization and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience improving production operations through deployment automation, monitoring, system diagnosis, incident management, and reliability engineering.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Set the team’s direction and roadmap with senior engineers and partner teams, and select, scope, and deliver high-impact initiatives that evolve ranking coordination services, machine learning indexes, and data pipelines supporting feeds and discovery experiences.
  • Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing engineering team; set clear expectations, provide actionable feedback, manage performance, and create growth opportunities for engineers at different career stages.
  • Maintain direct feedback loops with engineers using the platform and use their feedback and adoption patterns to guide investment.
  • Coach engineers and technical leaders, delegate meaningful ownership, and build a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and knowledge sharing.
  • Protect engineers’ focus time by removing blockers, reducing unnecessary interruptions, and keeping processes lightweight.
  • Turn multi-quarter platform investments into achievable milestones; manage dependencies and risks, communicate tradeoffs and progress, and adapt priorities as partner and business needs evolve.
  • Drive operational excellence through incident response, blameless postmortems, observability, safe rollouts, and proactive system hardening.
  • Establish reliability and performance goals and use them to guide investment; plan for on-call work and unexpected requests, make reprioritization explicit, and address unsustainable operational load.
  • Build partnerships with Feed, Search, Ads, Machine Learning Platform, and infrastructure teams; align roadmaps, resolve competing requirements, and make platform capabilities easier to adopt and operate.
  • Guide architectural improvements and engineering best practices that make ranking systems more efficient, maintainable, and scalable.
  • Create space for experimentation and continuous learning while maintaining production-readiness standards, identifying unnecessary complexity, and recognizing opportunities for simplification or consolidation.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Go or Python; Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform; data systems such as Redis, Postgres, Memcached, Solr, or Milvus; and streaming frameworks such as Apache Beam or Flink.

About the Company

Reddit

Runs online communities for discussion and advice

Reddit runs a website and mobile app where people discuss interests, ask questions, share links, and post photos or videos. Its user-created communities, called subreddits, cover topics from news and entertainment to hobbies, local recommendations, and technical help. People reply in comment threads and vote posts or comments up or down, affecting which discussions appear prominently in each community and on their feeds. Reddit earns most of its revenue from advertising, while its Reddit Pro tools help businesses and publishers share content and track conversations about their brands. Reddit was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2005

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